Horrified hoplophoe ask Advising hoplophobe for advice on Gun Nut. I could not help myself.

Dear Amy: When our family gets together for any holiday, my niece’s husband has to bring a gun with him.
He has a permit. He thinks his permit gives him permission to carry a loaded gun wherever he goes. He even takes it to church.

Maybe you should stop dating the twice convicted drug-dealing boyfriend of yours, or move from that crime infested neighborhood or maybe you niece’s husband is just exercising his right to carry a weapon. Yes even in church, God does not provide for Force Fields that keep bad guys away and, in case you have not heard there had been attacks on churches. Praying is fine but a well placed 9mm round is final.

I have requested that he leave the gun at home when coming to my house.
He says that if he cannot bring his gun, then his family won’t come to our home. There will be small children at the house, but he says it’s OK because his kids are fine with it. Should I let him bring the gun or tell them they need to stay home?

You gave him an ultimatum, he responded. That his response is not what you wanted to hear should not concern your pretty little ears. Maybe he is looking for an excuse not to go to your Thanksgiving Diner and share the traditional dose of E. Coli from undercooked turkey seeping in the Dollar Store stuffing. And when he said that his kids are fine with it, he meant the fact that the rest of the uneducated Crayon Gobblers will not represent a challenge for his kids and they will deal with them if the need arises. Do ask him to stay home, he will appreciate it more than a second serving of Basking Robbins Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream with Oreo chips, about the only edible thing in your household that day.

Amy says: I shared your letter with a spokesperson for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, who responded with this statistic: “A gun in any home is four times more likely to be used to kill or injure a loved one in an unintentional or accidental shooting than it is to be used for self-defense [bradycampaign.org].”

Which means “I am so brain dead that I went to Hoplophobia Central and they gave me a B.S. stat to back up by personal and unfounded fear of inanimate objects.”

This man may believe that he is somehow protecting his family, but by carrying a loaded gun he is placing them (and anyone else in the home) at risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 4,000 children and teens are wounded or killed in unintentional shootings every year.

Because, you know guns jump out of holsters and start shooting on their own. I saw a case like that in Dr. Phil this afternoon. And to make myself sound even more thoughtful, I am giving you a statistic from the CDC that does not tell you about how most those precious kids got shot while dealing dope or engaging in gang business like your newphew Bobby Jamal Perez.

Your niece’s husband may have a legal right to carry his gun, but you also have a right to maintain a weapons-free household.

But you do not have the right to tell people how to live their lives. If being unsafe is your option, fine just don’t expect everybody else to do the lemming marathon.

PS: Now I know that your niece was awarded the brains in the family. She married the right guy.

From some idiot in Wisconsin:

Of course I am aware that my hunting rifles can be used to kill people as well as deer and ducks, but they’re not designed for that, and that makes a big difference. It’s hard to conceal a long-barreled gun and impossible to get off more then four shots at a time with a semi-automatic 30.06. Could people be killed with legitimate hunting rifles?

Dear Fudd: Your hunting rifle is based in the Mauser Action designed to be used as a military rifle. It killed millions of people in both WWI and WWII and its descendants are being used by the military to this day as sniper rifles.
You want to know how fast you can become a crazed bastard with a gun that can kill innocent people up to 600 yards and must be stopped? Let me show you:

It is all in the way you get advertised. Dear Dave Cieslewicz: As of right now and by the power invested in me by photoshopping, I declare you are a Jew and Cop Hating Neo-Nazi who must be disarmed and controlled for the sake of the public. And if you refuse and make a racket, we will say your grandfather probably was a member of the Polnische Wehrmacht.

You see, it was never about Gun control but People control. The faster you figure this out, the more chances you get to keep your “innocent-for-now” guns.

(H/T to Say Uncle)

Developer with shotgun scared off Oakland rioters.

Here is this paragraph. Read it and think what comes to your mind.

A Fort Lee soldier has been convicted of brandishing a pistol outside a Hopewell eatery in one of the few cases of a concealed-gun permit-holder breaking the law since Virginians were allowed to carry hidden guns into bars and restaurants serving alcohol.

When I read it, my first thought was “Drunk G.I. got in a tiff with somebody at restaurant where booze is served and pulled and now he is paying for it.” Well, apparently not quite like that. Here is what happened according to the same The Richmond Times Dispatch article that opened with the quote above:

Bell brandished his concealed gun outside a restaurant that doesn’t serve alcohol.

It happened in the parking lot of a Denny’s for God’s sake! The soldier did not go inside, got drunk, stepped outside and beat the crap out of or shot somebody with a gun. He apparently was not involved directly in the fight. He did display a weapon he was carrying which is illegal if his life was not being threatened. He was found guilty and I have no complaints about that.

Now the question I ask of Mr. Mark Bowes (the creative writer of the ‘article’) is,  if the law that you mentioned in the beginning of the article was not violated, why not only bring it but make a huge fuss about it?

And then I remembered that integrity is not a part of the journalistic experience. Silly me.

Tomorrow I shall take a little time to drop by my local Barnes & Noble for my printed fix. Larry Correia’s Spellbound is first on the list followed by Ben Coe’s Power Down and maybe Mark Bowen’s Worm.  I never read P. J. O’Rourke and apparently he has a boatload of books written which I hate because I would hate to pick not his best and form the wrong idea about the guy. But a chance will be taken.

Unfortunately two authors have been ejected from my regular reading list: W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy. They are not even writing their own books anymore and one can tall right away. It is fraudulent in my opinion.

And I am a tad pissed about a book I ordered via Amazon: Real World Survival : What Has Worked For Me by Walt Rauch. I ordered the damn thing on October 12 and so far not a peep. It ticks me off to no end that people are that irresponsible… or maybe I am such a reading addict I find that 3 weeks delivery in this day and age is inexcusable.

My recently moved next door neighbor works for SEIU. He’s been involved in the Occupy Miami stuff but today he had to stay home because he was having Cable & Internet installed. He’s been on the phone bitching loudly because the union workers that came earlier only do installation outside the home and nobody knows when the union workers that do installation inside the home are nowhere to be found.

The Fail is strong with this one.

Gwen Shegda shared a bit more information in the Brady Facebook page and what she is trying to pass as warfare in her neighborhood is just a heavy case of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). Residents of Tudor Grove in Orange County, Florida have been complaining about a neighbor who shoots in his property. The location is rural and the shooting neighbor has been there way before the community was built so the county legally cannot do a thing. The following video explains the situation and shows that not only Gwen has issues with fibbing.

Residents concerned over nearby gun range: MyFoxORLANDO.com

Tudor Grove Community’s Facebook page informs the neighbors that they have contacted the ACLU, NRA, Brady, Million Mom March and I think even Senator Marco Rubio to see if they can do something about it. This post is rich:

I am thinking this is Gwen by the way she writes. Dear Gwen, it is called the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, not the Brady Campaign to Prevent Loud Noises. Fibbing about it is not kosher.